PROFESSOR VICTOR PETROVICH SALNIKOV IS 75 YEARS OLD!

The paper is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Victor Petrovich Salnikov, doctor of law, professor, academician, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honorary Officer of the Internal Affairs Bodies, long-term member of the Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission, former head of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, retired police lieutenant general, editor-in-chief of the journal «Legal Science: History and the Presence». V.P. Salnikov is known not only in our country, but also abroad as one of the largest Russian theorists of state and law. His works devoted to the problems of legal culture attract the attention of a huge number of researchers around the world. The purpose of the paper is to emphasize the contribution of Professor V.P. Salnikov to domestic legal science. At the same time, one of the proof of the invaluable contribution of V.P. Salnikov to science is not only his own work, but also the works of his students, including a large number of academics and heads of government bodies. Methods: in the process of preparing the paper, various scientific research methods are used, among which the method of historical narration is the main one. Results: 75 years of life spent in constant scientific research for V.P. Salnikov proved successful and fruitful. The scientist celebrates his glorious anniversary in good health, with many creative plans and great optimism.

In Memoriam

It is my sad duty to announce that my dear friend Bryan Loughrey, co-editor of the journal, recently passed away after a short illness. It was Bryan who relaunched Critical Survey in 1987, serving as Editor, General Editor and lately Editor Emeritus. The journal was originally founded by C.B. Cox and A.E. Dyson in 1962 as a sister journal to Critical Quarterly (1958–), which also changed hands in 1987, but went in a different, more theoretical direction, under the editorship of Colin McCabe. Together with Critical Survey, Bryan also assumed responsibility from Cox and Dyson for the ‘Critical Quarterly Conferences’, a long-running series of conferences for UK sixth form students who might be contemplating studying English Literature or related studies at university. This historical background shows Bryan operating in three capacities in which he excelled: as independent scholar, editor and academic manager.

Teaching the History of Drugs as Commodities

Paul Gootenberg is SUNY Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology at Stony Brook University (New York) and Chair of History. He is a global commodity and drug historian trained as a Latin Americanist at the University of Chicago and Oxford. His works include Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug (UNC Press, 2008), Cocaine: Global Histories (Routledge, 1999) and with Liliana M. Dávalos, The Origins of Cocaine: Peasant Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes (Routledge, 2018). From 2011-14 he chaired the Drugs, Security and Democracy fellowship (DSD) of the Soros Open Society Foundation and Social Science Research Council. Gootenberg is General Editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Drug History and President-elect 2021of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (ADHS). He regularly teaches courses at Stony Brook about the history of commodities and drugs. What follows is an edited transcript of an interview he had with Elisabet Rasch one of the editors of the Teaching Commodity Frontiers section, in February 2021.